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Oscar winner Geoffrey Rush is seeking up to $25 million in damages in his defamation case against a Sydney newspaper, it has emerged.

Details of the large sum come after Orange is the New Black star, Yael Stone’s explosive allegations that the Hollywood actor used a small mirror to watch her shower and dance in front of her naked when they worked on a play together in 2010 and 2011.

Camera IconYael Stone with Geoffrey Rush at the opening night of "Richard III" on Broadway at The Belasco Theater on November 10, 2013.Picture: FilmMagic

The staggering figure is contained in a badly redacted court document that was uploaded to the Federal Court of Australia website.

According to the document, which is still online, Mr Rush claims he could lose $25.3 million worth of work over a ten year period because of claims made in The Daily Telegraph.

Mr Rush is suing the newspaper over articles which alleged the Australian actor behaved inappropriately towards a female cast member during a Sydney Theatre Company run of King Lear. Mr Rush has denied the allegations.

In the closing argument document, which was delivered during the Australian Federal Court trial last year, it says Mr Rush earned around $37 million between 2003 and 2017. His income for the past 11 months was estimated to be around $45,000 a month.

It also outlines Mr Rush’s claimed future economic losses over a decade and projected a $5 million loss from the time the articles were published in November 2017 to September 12, 2019.

According to the document, the amount is based on Mr Rush receiving 75 per cent less work and his prior earnings from the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise. Without including those earnings, and based on Mr Rush only receiving 25 per cent less work, it was estimated he would lose up to $7.2 million.

The largest defamation payout in Australia was initially awarded to Rebel Wilson against publisher Bauer in which she was awarded $4.5 million however this was then reduced to $600,000 on appeal. The title still belongs to Alan Jones and radio stations 2GB and 4BC for defaming the Wagner family in Queensland by suggesting they were responsible for 12 deaths in the Grantham floods. They were ordered to pay $3.4 million.

In interviews with The New York Times and the ABC’s 7.30 last year, Ms Stone had also claimed Mr Rush, stroked her back at an awards ceremony, and sent her “erotic” text messages.

“I didn't know how to stop the texts,” Ms Stone told 7.30. “The thought of not responding to one of his text messages and coming in the next day feeling that I'd let him down, that I'd disappointed him, was not an option for me.”

“I was sitting at the mirrors and he came in from the shower holding his towel and he was naked and he danced around in front of me with his penis out,” Ms Stone told the ABC’s 7.30.

Mr Rush has denied all of Ms Stone’s allegations in a statement through his lawyers, and said they were “incorrect and in some instances have been taken completely out of context”.